Diavolo was one of the most menacing stand users we've seen.
The strength, the Epitaph, the ability to get to only the results, and he does this
all with his stand- "KINGU CRIMSON" *Time erases to the end*.
Now hold on, we'll get to that, but first, let's go about this from the beginning to
see just how strong Diavolo is.
Let’s begin this with Diavolo himself.
The man is a unit, but he's also extremely secretive and not one to go out to do the
most.
We saw that in part 5.
The only thing we've seen that was a test of his own strength so far has been holding
up the fortune teller with one arm, which in our standards is strong.
He’s not shaking either, he's holding him like it's nothing.
I want to say he's capable of more above peak human feats, but we don't see much, and this
is also just a lifting feat, so that doesn't say anything about what he's capable of with
his own hands.
Plus, Diavolo mostly fights using King Crimson, as he doesn’t necessarily need a reason
to do anything with his own body.
Now we have the durability of Diavolo and Doppio, and it doesn't say the most either
from what we've seen.
Let's look to Risotto Vs. Doppio.
A lot of the damage you see on Doppio would and could kill people off rip and or kill
someone if it goes untreated, but that doesn't say the most because this anime we're talking
about.
It would be crazy to survive this type of stuff as a 3d human being, but for them, it's
not exactly the most insane thing.
What I will say is extremely inhuman is the stamina of their body and how long it takes
to take them down, which really didn't even happen in the fight.
They were able to devise an entire game-plan, work off their surroundings, and end up getting
a win over both Risotto and Bruno's team.
Their stamina is what deserves the credit here.
Now, on the strength of King Crimson.
King Crimson has punched through Bruno, Abbacchio, and Spice Girl and had destroyed Silver Chariot
and Polnareff.
The first three are hard to do anything with, but when we refer to Silver Chariot and Polnareff,
we can get an easy idea of the ballpark King Crimson is in strength-wise.
So, Star Platinum and Jotaro without the intent to kill can still cause Building level feats.
Considering that, next, we look to Jotaro and Star Platinum Vs. Polnareff and Silver
Chariot.
So, there’s a similar idea that we’re not trying to take out a friend, but we also
have to output enough strength to match the killing intent our friend is outputting.
That most likely moves that to Building plus, but even if you don’t want to consider that,
building level is enough as a normal level.
Diavolo being able to severely damage Silver Chariot and Polnareff to the point of near-death
points towards Building and or Building plus.
Now, do I think King Crimson has the potential to show reasons why it's stronger than that?
Yeah, but since I don't have the evidence to provide that thought, it's just a thought
and nothing more.
Now for the durability of King Crimson.
This is another attribute we don't see the most from, especially since King Crimson has
the ability it has, so there was never really a reason to test its actual durability.
The one thing I've seen that I guess should be able to be made into an example is when
Diavolo had punched through the stand Spice Girl while inhabiting the same body it was
in.
Stand damage should reflect on its users (unless it's an automated stand), this should mean
that King Crimson was able to take its own damage.
It only gets damaged to the extent of coughing blood like how any anime character takes gut
punches.
So, if we established that King Crimson has Building to Building plus damage output, and
was able to take a fatal blow fairly easily, that would point towards Building / Building
plus or more durability.
Though that's my theory from what we've pieced here.
If you were to ask Araki, and he said, "Oh well, why he was able to take it was because
stand damage is reflected the main stand and stand user, and Diavolo was inhabitant, so
the damage was a lesser extent.
" Then THAT would be the case instead.
On the speed of King Crimson…
Well, if you're able to see the future and skip time, all you really need is a speed
that is as fast or faster than your opponents' combat speed, which it does!
In previous videos, we go over the high speed of the stands in Part 3.
We have Silver Chariot as a massively faster than light stand.
Now, if Silver Chariot was unable to react fast enough to King Crimson attempting to
strike it after the time skip was over, then shows evidence as to King Crimson also being
massively faster than light.
Arguments like, "Polnareff was caught off guard" don't matter because you're able to
react to something that catches you off guard if you're fast enough.
Josuke has shown us that, Diavolo has shown us that, hell, even Polnareff has shown us
that.
Plus, that applies outside of anime too, it's not a crazy concept.
As for other speed feats, they stand barrage Metallica's knives and bullets from Sex Pistols.
Didn't react as well to Metallica's knives because it was Doppio is hosting the body,
so it's an in-character problem.
They were also able to activate their time erasure ability before taking actual damage
from Bruno, who had both similar speeds and caught him lacking.
Now, we're onto the abilities of King Crimson.
First, we have Epitaph.
Epitaph is the sub-stand of King Crimson that gives the stand the ability to see up to 10
seconds into the future.
The problem with it though has to be not being able to determine how we got to the prediction.
They know it's going to happen and have to try to see where their win condition is.
It's like Donnie Darko or Terminator 2.
And finally, we're at King Crimson's true ability.
Time erasure.
I will now explain King Crimson.
So yeah, it's actually fairly easy to understand when you look into it for what it is.
Oh wait, did something…
Oh, well, I'll explain it again.
King Crimson, in quotes, "erases" a time frame up to ten seconds.
At that time, other people in the world don't experience that time and don't have any memory
of it.
That time happened, it existed, but only to Diavolo and King Crimson for the time it takes
up.
Basically, at that time, Diavolo has free roamed to avoid whatever he wants to.
A thing that I didn't take into account before the video was the fact that Diavolo can't
attack while in the time erasure.
If you look to the JoJo wiki, it'll refer to a page in JoJoveller where the information
is there, but I am one without JoJoveller.
The thing is, you can see it anytime Diavolo uses the time erasure ability.
The ability is only used to avoid hits and get positioning, after that is when he can
strike, so that's something to keep in mind.
As for the extent of this ability, in terms of functionality, I’m not sure where it
fairs in comparison to other 4th dimensional abilities.
I know it should be on the middle or lower end because of the minimal time limit in comparison
to those that can do similar things with no limits.
How strong is Diavolo and King Crimson?
Building level to building level plus in terms of strength, massively faster than light in
terms of speed, and their abilities are ridiculous.
I think it’s fairly difficult to fight against a character of his caliber.
Now here’s my thing, if Diavolo did more beheading than dough nutting, he’d probably
get a lot more done.
Just saying.